You may not know the name Storm Reid right now, but by March 10-the day after her $100 million Disney film, A Wrinkle in Time hits theaters-you will. This optimistic circularity is certainly contemporary, but in an age in which adults are continually amazed by children's grasp of technology, it would have made a lot more sense to let Meg harness her father's science instead of her own personality flaws. Here, she is a brown-skinned girl from California. Young McCabe is also very good as the cerebral Charles and Miller is impressive as Meg's would-be boyfriend, Calvin. Whatsit (Reese Withersppon), Mrs. The film boasts a star-studded cast including Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pine, Mindy Kaling and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. As the heroine Meg Murry, she is in almost every frame, navigating mean girls at school, the loss of her father and even interdimensional travel. Parts of "A Wrinkle in Time" work while others don't; luckily, the parts that do involve the core around which L'Engle's book resonates: love of family, love of being alive, love of our common humanity and the experiences that bind us together. Which says, when reaching the new planet. We're definitely in a bit of an Afrofuturist wave in American cinema with the success of Black Panther, and early reviews praise DuVernay's take on the story as visually spectacular. "In my opinion, representation does really matter". I will always adore Anne Shirley of Green Gables, but I have a lot of empathy for Marilla Cuthbert and her exasperation at all the flighty, immature and selfish things Anne does. And there are also rumors of a script being written by X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg, as well as an Obi-Wan Kenobi film being in the works. Which, Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. This is the first sign of many we get that this school is obsessed with Meg. Who from "A Wrinkle in Time" lives in. At one point, a swarm of flowers rescues a character from falling to their death. Rest assured, in young Storm Reid, "Wrinkle" has the best Meg Murray a L'Engle reader could hope for: ardent, insecure, a big wonderful brain warring with an adolescent's outsized emotions. This movie is filled with pinks and purples and so, so much glitter. It's possible that some of us who are Megs, some of us who waited too long to learn the lessons of Mrs. McCabe especially manages to steal every scene he is in.

Numerous schools start their spring vacations this week, giving PG-rated "A Wrinkle in Time" a few weeks to lure young audiences in the weeks leading up to Easter, which is on April 1 this year. She's on a super downer, but little brother Charles Wallace is just the opposite.

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Ava DuVernay isn't interested in helming a "Star Wars" movie. Several of its emotional payoffs rely less on nobility than on faith in otherpeople. By facing IT, Meg is facing her own demons and insecurities head on and sending them packing. This might seem like a small thing to those people and/or demographics that have been offered value freely for their entire lives.

Women were seen as the strong protectors for the children in this film. Meg is a kid who is in huge pain and this is as much a coming-of-age parable as it is a science fiction adventure, perhaps more so. It is the only entertainment I found in the film's just under two-hour length. Sometimes it's about loving yourself in that same way. "She told me, 'You're going to stay the same but the people around you are going to change.' I feel like I'll be recognized more once the movie comes out but I'm still the same girl".

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